Question:
Do you or anyone else on here believe that the PeTA clowns could live capture 400 deer and dress them in vests? Do you think that the Ohio DNR would even allow it to happen if PeTA could actually pull it off??
Answer:
A false Internet story is circulating that claims that PETA has outfitted
deer in Ohio with bright orange vests in an effort to fool hunters into
putting down their guns. Now hunters are defiantly vowing to "outsmart" PETA
by shooting any "deer" they see wearing orange.
The story first circulated a year ago and has now resurfaced on a Web site
run by bowhunters whose aim isn't that straight.
"It doesn't take a genius to pull a trigger, but we're beginning to wonder
if hunters' IQ's are smaller than their waistbands," says PETA spokesperson,
Lisa Lange. "The idea of hunters purposely shooting when they see orange may
be nothing new-they already shoot people in white gardening gloves and even
wearing camouflage. Last year, one father mistook his son for a turkey and
fired away."
Every year, there are so many hunting "accidents" that rural resident Eric
Seaborg wrote in The Washington Post: "On the days designated 'either sex,'
when hunters don't even have to pretend to see antlers, we go to the
movies." There have been unusually high hunter fatalities this season-this
past November's nine-day gun season in Wisconsin saw seven gunfire deaths,
and three Virginia hunters died in the first four days of 2002 alone.
PETA asserts that it has never outfitted deer with vests, nor ever made any
plans to. "Whoever came up with this hoax must be laughing himself right out
of his tree stand," says Lange.
